[MlMt] MailMate misrendering special characters in HTML messages

[Pete Resnick]

On 24 Oct 2022, at 11:50, John Cooper wrote:

> John Cooper wrote (at 10:57 PM on Saturday, October 22, 2022):
>
>> I subscribe to a newsletter that often includes proper names from 
>> non-English languages. When I use Mailmate to view a recent 
>> newsletter, I see the following:
>>
>> ![](https://i.ibb.co/r2q9vHZ/MailMate.png)
>>
>> When I view the raw message, I see this:
>>
>> ![](https://i.ibb.co/Fs1LjMq/HTML.png)
>>
>> And when I view the same message in Apple Mail, I see this -- which 
>> is clearly what the writer intended me to see.
>>
>> ![](https://i.ibb.co/bWmgKy0/Mail.png)
>>
>> Is there some setting I can tweak to get MailMate to display these 
>> characters as intended?
>
> The message in question contains the following line:
>
> ```Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1```
>
> This seems as if it should be enough to prompt MailMate to display it 
> correctly.

Except it's wrong. The original message should say "charset=utf8", not 
"charset=iso-8859-1". The original sender's email program got it wrong. 
It would be nice if MailMate had the feature that many web browsers 
have: A choice in the "View" menu that lets you force the charset to 
something other than what the sending email program (mistakenly) said it 
was. But this is a bug on the sending end, not MailMate's.

pr
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